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And Now it's the Dash Lights... 700

Okay, so I have an issue with the dash lights. I want to swap all of them with LEDs. I know there are preassembled kits for newer Volvos. I have not seen any for 740s, though.

Anyone have a URL for such an animal?

Further, recently my right turn indictor has not worked for some time after a cold start. The lights themselves flash properly, and the clicking in the dash is there. It does sound a bit muted, though. Everything works great but no light on the dash blinks.

Left is normal.

After some time warming up (or perhaps after rolling around I hit the magic combination of bumps or some such) the right turn dash light comes back to life and the clicking returns to its normal volume and sharpness. (The differences in the volume and quality of the clicking sound may be in my head. I will try to record this soon.)

Tonight it did this but tool longer to come back to life.

Additionally, tonight the light for the high beams would not come on. I tried tapping and rapping on parts of the dash and the top of the cluster. No love.

After the right turn signal dash light came back to life I was hoping this would happen to the high beam indicator lamp.

Wrong.

I assumed that this lamp had merely burnt out.

Then it came back on again. It took about an hour of driving around for that lamp to resurrect itself. Like with the turn signal, the high beams functioned just fine. There was no indication that they were active on my dash for an hour. Then I clicked them on et voila! the little two-toned blue light was there again.

Weird.

Anyone have any ideas? Could is simply be a loose or corroded connector or is this indicative of some other issue?
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